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Health minister calls for self-reliance in African health financing
IOL
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The National Department of Health has reiterated the importance of self-reliance in financing health systems. In Lusaka, Zambia, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi addressed African health ministers at the 75th World Health Organization (WHO)...
African Leaders Explore Health Taxes as Solution to Funding Crisis
News Ghana
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August 25, 2025
Public health experts and African policymakers are examining targeted excise taxes on harmful products as a potential solution to mounting healthcare funding challenges across the continent. A recent virtual briefing organized by Vital Strategies...
U.S. Customs Agents Praised For Catching "Disease-Ridden Threat" Twice In One Week At The Same Airport
The Travel
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August 21, 2025
Whether it be TSA or CBP, security measures remain of the utmost importance at airports across America. We have seen plenty of busts lately, including a passenger getting caught by TSA with an absurd stash of fake IDs. On the flip side, we have...
Why Does Historian Eric Toussaint Accuse China, India And Russia of Being "Silent Accomplices” in the Horror in Palestine?
CADTM
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August 27, 2025
In an extensive article signed by Eric Toussaint in the digital mouthpiece of the ‘Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt’, the Belgian historian and political scientist raises, providing all kinds of data, sources and statistics,...
Bushmeat Smuggling Foiled At Detroit Airport Raises Health Alarms
The Game 730AM - Michigan
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August 21, 2025
Bushmeat may be considered a delicacy in other continents, but here in the United States, not only is it illegal, but it poses a serious disease risk. So when the United States Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialist discovered this...
Border agents find potentially disease ridden rodent, primate meat at Detroit airport
MLive - Michigan
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August 20, 2025
ROMULUS, MI – Border agents at Detroit Metropolitan Airport have intercepted potentially disease ridden bushmeat twice in the last month. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, rodent meat and primate meat were found in two separate...
'Potentially disease ridden': Wild African animal meat intercepted at Detroit airport
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 20, 2025
Windsor Rodent and primate meat found with travellers within days of each other, according to U.S. border officials. Rodent and primate meat found with travellers, according to U.S. border officials CBC News · Posted: Aug 20, 2025 9:53 AM EDT |...
Medicine DAO: Decentralized Like the Forest
Reality Sandwich
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August 11, 2025
How Tribal Memory, Sacred Healing, and Medicine DAOs Could Reweave What Civilization Forgot 1. When Science Becomes Servitude I used to believe that working in a European research lab meant freedom, the freedom of science to explore, to innovate,...
AfCFTA is a big step for Africa, and India should be part of this journey
The Diplomatist
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IETO has grown significantly under your leadership. Can you walk us through your vision when the organisation began, and how that vision has evolved, especially in the context of India–Africa economic diplomacy? When we started IETO, the main idea...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Life presidency a poisonous pill: Zim can’t swallow twice
Zimbabwe Independent
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ZANU PF ZANU PF is at it again. Whenever the ruling party runs out of solutions to Zimbabwe’s grinding crises — a collapsing economy, a broken health sector, underfunded schools, power cuts and deepening poverty — it reaches for its favourite...
NSIA Insurance champions workplace wellness
Punch
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August 11, 2025
NSIA Insurance Limited has highlighted the need for a healthy workplace as it hosted a fitness party for employees from its Lagos branches in Victoria Island, Ikeja, and Aspamda. In a statement on Monday, the firm said that the event blended...
Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 26, 2025
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 26, 2025, Egypt's petroleum ministry announced new gas drilling in its giant Zohr field to boost output. Meanwhile, Tunisian rights groups condemned the government's closure of a key information agency as a...
Mohammed Bouzoubaa’s TGCC Explores Gabon’s Infrastructure Opportunities
Morocco World News
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August 10, 2025
Rabat – Gabon’s President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema received on Friday Mohammed Bouzoubaa, the CEO of Moroccan infrastructure giant TGCC. The Gabonese presidency office announced on Friday that the discussions focused on “priority...
Gabon, Global Fishing Watch Team Up to Fight IUU Fishing
Africa Defense Forum
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July 29, 2025
Gabon has signed a memorandum of understanding with Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit organization, that aims to enhance the West African country’s ability to monitor, control and surveil its waters by leveraging satellite technology and data...
Trends in Antibiotic Resistance in Uropathogens at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital (2019–2024): A Retrospective Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 4, 2025
Introduction Urinary tract infections (UTIs) refer to the infection of the bladder and kidneys having clinical manifestations including cystitis, pyelonephritis, prostatitis, urosepsis, and catheter-associated UTIs.1 These infections are...
Tendai Ndoro Laid to Rest as Twin Brother’s Grief Moves Zimbabwe
Briefly
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August 26, 2025
Zimbabweans gathered in Bulawayo to honour Tendai Ndoro with tributes that spanned the city’s key football landmarks The striker’s death has drawn national attention, with his twin brother’s grief capturing hearts online Ndoro’s legacy extends...
Shil Kothari, President, Gateway Health Alliances, Inc.
Nutrition Industry Executive Magazine
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August 1, 2025
Gateway Health Alliances is a science-driven ingredient company specializing in clinically validated botanical extracts that support weight management and metabolic health. Its proprietary ingredients work across multiple pathways—including...
Merck Foundation CEO and First Ladies of Africa to Call for Action to Build Healthcare & Media Capacity, and Break Infertility Stigma
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 1, 2025
BusinessWire India Monrovia [Liberia]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 1: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025 on 19th and...
Business News | Merck Foundation CEO and First Ladies of Africa to Call for Action to Build Healthcare & Media Capacity, and Break Infertility Stigma
Latestly
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August 1, 2025
BusinessWire India Monrovia [Liberia]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 1: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025 on 19th and...